A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.
How about instead of shakedown laws we pass some laws about malicious advertising online? People are less likely to block ads when the ads are not actively trying to fuck over their device.
I agree. Like right to repair laws. There should be laws that give people a right to opt out of all advertising online.
Right to repair is a huge issue that most people totally ignore, it’s frustrating. However you can’t ban advertising online. it’s how operators pay for their servers. Either every site that provides a service has a subscription model or runs ads.
Or relies on donations, or relies on grants, or sells merchandise. All, along with subscriptions, are preferable to ads, which should be outlawed.
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You can ban it. Its not my problem how they pay. Nobody asked them to take over the internet and turn ever pixel into an ad. Ban ads, these sites die and we get back the real internet.
You know someone has to pay for websites right? Like If no one donated to Wikipedia they would not exist. If you want to get back to “The Real Internet” you are going to have to start hosting all your own images, blog posts, e-mail server…
Did you just receive an email from Jimmy Wales, too?
He emails me every year and I give him money every year.
Wikimedia got me through all my degrees/certifications.
The email said I hadn’t donated in two years, so I’m probably due!
Taking away advertising doesn’t take that away. It just means websites no longer free load by wasting our free time.
If you want to get back to “The Real Internet” you are going to have to start hosting all your own images, blog posts, e-mail server
No, you wouldn’t. But also not a terrible idea. We don’t need 90% of the content online. We need most of it scrubbed.
The truth is paywalled. Only the lies are free.
News should absolutely be free, and freely available.
It being on Facebook is not either of those things, though.
Hence the current policy of not allowing news on Facebook Canada. Guess what, it’s not benefiting anybody.
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A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone
Yes.
while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.
Doubt.
The survey suggests that two out of every three Canadians think that news should be free and accessible to anyone, and “the struggling media have other ways to make money.”
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That feeling was highest among 18 to 34-year-olds, a group that mainly gets their news from social media.
Unsurprising given the landscape we grew up in and problematic. At least I’m guess this cohort would be more inclined to have more publicly funded media to make it “free” to all.
